In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.